时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2008


英语课

Hello, I'm Elizabeth Vargas, and this is 20/20 In Touch.


You know the old adage 1 "you are what you eat", well, for the 21st century some say you are what you click.


Today if you wanna know anything from the meaning of life to the location of the nearest Starbucks to who's singing the song, that knowledge is only a click away.


[song] "I'll be wrapped around your finger. . . "


But are there other mysteries hidden in that unassuming internet search box? In his new book "Click", Bill Tancer says he's learned a lot about who we are by examining what we search.


It's an insight that we’re having to ourselves that we haven't had before. Whether you're looking for a new car or searching the best way to break up with your boyfriend, everything you type in this box is saved by your search engine then sold anonymously 2 to companies like Bill Tancer's. His research is based on searches made by 10 million internet users in the US. Can you read anything into that or it is just sorta fun stuff to know?


 The bottom line is that there're really some important nuggets in terms of whom we are and where we're going. But the most significant difference Tancer sees in internet searching is how our relationship with computers is changing---becoming more intimate.


When you look into the very early days of search engines, we used it mostly as a utility just to get us that piece of information we were looking for. But what our data is telling us is that people are using search engines as things like a confidant, a place to get information where you don't wanna be judged about asking the questions. Perhaps a question we might be too embarrassed to ask, even our own doctors or spouses 3 or anything else.


 Yeah.


We hope you'll watch 20/20 on the air every Friday night at 10 o'clock, 9 o'clock central. And keep stopping by online for our daily web cast, and previews of our upcoming stories. I'm Elizabeth Vargas, for all of us at 20/20, we're In Touch, so you'll be in touch.



1 adage
n.格言,古训
  • But the old adage that men grow into office has not proved true in my experience.但是,根据我的经验,人们所谓的工作岗位造就人材这句古话并不正确。
  • Her experience lends credence to the adage " We live and learn!"她的经验印证了一句格言: 活到老,学到老!
2 anonymously
ad.用匿名的方式
  • The manuscripts were submitted anonymously. 原稿是匿名送交的。
  • Methods A self-administered questionnaire was used to survey 536 teachers anonymously. 方法采用自编“中小学教师职业压力问卷”对536名中小学教师进行无记名调查。
3 spouses
n.配偶,夫或妻( spouse的名词复数 )
  • Jobs are available for spouses on campus and in the community. 校园里和社区里有配偶可做的工作。 来自辞典例句
  • An astonishing number of spouses-most particularly in the upper-income brackets-have no close notion of their husbands'paychecks. 相当大一部分妇女——特别在高收入阶层——并不很了解他们丈夫的薪金。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
-ter
active time
amun-re
annexin'
antietams
Argives
arsonium hydroxide
betaxed
betweenbrains
Blasius'duct
book system
cascade experiment
charmingest
chlorcyclizine
circle graph
conjugate slip
conservative judaisms
constant current source
continuous cross-linking line
costume-jewelry
counter-parry
debug memory allocator
devil's urn
Disporum calcaratum
doits
electro-pneumatic control
empirical value
external cuneiform
family Pteriidae
faucher
fibre disc sander
fifines
free in and out and free taxes
full bathrooms
full vessel
Gallacher
gear department
genus sidalceas
glycollylglutathione
Great Apostasy
guiding lights
gutturalizes
information vendor
instalment payment clause
Inversnaid
Jacktown
lateral overlap
levy a tax on
limit group
lying behind
Maktoob
media necrosis of aorta
microlife
microprocessor compiler language
Mikazuki
Morinda badia
Nashua
night cart
nisws
odontoblasic
optical network performance
oscillator voltage
out of fund
Pax Augusta
pezograph
phoronids
plugs in
plunger collar
poly-fluid theory
port rate
preheater
print drier
proctography
quadrumane
quiet lines
reflection of light
republikaner
resignatary
ribbon-shapeds
roger shermen
root-canal ramification
sackungs
sangxing decoction
scandalizers
serviceable
Shenshu
sketch sth in
slow-scan television
sole cause
stem growth hormone
strigid
taivert
the fewer the better fare
Traversetolo
Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope
two-coil instrument
underrecording
usherment
value of life
weighted aggregative index number
word with variable length
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